Medieval Women and Their Objects

dedication to carolyn p. collette is "a thematically and artistically sophisticated work whose veneer of transparency and narrow focus masks a vital inquiry into basic questions of value, moderation and sincerity in late medieval culture," is justified by her success in giving life again to the intellectual and cultural milieu that produced it.In taking seriously the moral issues the legends and their protagonists force us to confront, she once more makes clear her personal investment in the complex intersection of fictions, ideas, and human experience.In emphasizing Carolyn' s allegiance to the idea of an intellectual community, I do not want to neglect her role as teacher.Her first book, written with her colleague Richard Johnson, was a handbook on writing, with a telling title: Finding Common Ground: A Guide to Personal, Professional, and Public Writing (Longman, 1997).The claim in the introduction, that "presence implies commitment and invites conversation . . .matters of the deepest importance to anyone who writes," could be seen as the ground on which her work is formed."Anyone who writes"-it seems characteristic that her last class at Mount Holyoke was a writing class for campus employees.Even this overview, which leaves out so many articles and reviews and presentations, demonstrates her engagement with her subject matter; her dedication to intellectual honesty; and her desire to connect with her readers, fellow scholars, and students, traits that are deeply embedded in all that she has produced.Many of the contributors to this volume could testify to something else central to Carolyn' s personal

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  Open Access•Elena Woodacre•Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies•2023

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• What Do Reliquaries Do for Relics

  Cynthia Hahn•Numen•2010

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• The Cult of the Saints

  Peter Brown, Peter Robert Lamont Brown•Cult of the Saints•1982

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